About

Hi, I’m a single IT professional woman 50-something and thank you very much, I don’t look it! I don’t list my whole name here because I don’t want people to google on my name and find out this stuff!  Here is a fun article I wrote to tell you a little about who I am.

How I found out
On June 26, 2007, I fell off the tailgate of a pickup truck while helping someone move and hit my head. Big cut, lots of bleeding, but really no big deal.  In fact, I was with a group of church people helping with a crisis move, and we were all joking about how I “took one for the team”.

The very first CAT scan indicated a possible bleed or “small calcified meningioma”. Teeny, 5mm. Several tests later, they seemed to settle on “bleed”. Outside of a really bad, go-to-the-emergency-room headache at about the 24-hour point, I had no symptoms and just continued on.

Three months later, my doctor called me. He had continued to send films out to be compared to prior brain studies (I have an unrelated blood vessel condition) and have neuroradiologists and neurosurgeons look at them.

It’s a meningioma.

Brain tumor. Almost always benign. Very tiny, the size of a pea, 6mm, 1/4 inch, not at a size we’d do anything with. BUT we need to follow it to see if it gets bigger and how fast it grows because there’s no room for things like that in the brain.

How I’m going to handle it

Well, I’ve been through a few things in my life. It’s a bit of drama but I’m not upset. I already know how I’m going to handle it.

Traditional medicine makes you just watch and wait

At this stage, there is nothing traditional medicine does. I’ll do surgery if it ever comes to that, but why would I want to just sit around? MAYBE there is something I can do! That’s what this blog is all about, my journey through the SOMETHING.